Abstract
Male breast cancer is rare compared to female breast cancer, with less than 1 % of all breast cancer patients being male [1]. The incidence of male breast cancer is slowly increasing [2]. All breast pathologies found in the female breast may also been seen in the male breast.
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Garnett, S.E. (2015). Male Mammography. In: Hogg, P., Kelly, J., Mercer, C. (eds) Digital Mammography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_29
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